Short Archives – Andy Green

Quick Intro to Tangent Space – For 3D Artists

If you’re thinking “I’ve herd of Tangents before”, and you’ve not spent a lot of time animating or learning calculus, then there’s a good chance it’s from Tangent Space Normal Maps. In this short I’m going to take a quick look at tangent space, and relate it back to the Cross Product.

Polygon Soup – For 3D Artists

I had originally began writing this as part of the Cross Product post, but realised it was enough of a topic to also break out onto it’s own short. The Polygon Soup is an interesting one, especially if you’d never considered how or why 3D meshes are stored under the hood…